Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Hunger strike over tenure rejection

A black associate professor at MIT began a hunger strike on Monday to protest the University’s decision not to grant him tenure, a decision he claims was based on race. Adult stem cell researcher James Sherley says he has tried for two years to persuade the University’s administration to reconsider his tenure bid. But after exhausting all appeals, he says he is left with no other option but to protest.

I spoke to Sherley yesterday outside the University’s provost office where he stood with a group of 15 other faculty and students. “This protest is not about me not getting tenure, but there is a reason I didn’t get tenure and that reason is racism,” he said.

Sherley cited other incidents of unfair treatment throughout his eight years at MIT, including unfair lab space allocation, and the mishandling of a racial prejudice complaint. He also said his department chair, Douglas Lauffenburger, once told him that he anticipated race was going to be a factor in his tenure case.

The scientist, who was awarded a $2.5 million Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health last year, is calling for immediate tenure and censure of Provost L. Rafael Reif who oversaw his case. The researcher plans to stand outside the Provost’s office each morning from 9 to noon until his demands are met and, since Monday, has restricted his diet to water, vitamin supplements, and electrolytes.

They will miss the aion gold and they will try their best to play this game to get the joy.As long as they earn the aion online gold they will be happy and they think the game is very interesting. Of course they have to have a lot of aion money by themselves. Sure, that process of achieving will have its unpleasant and disagreeable aspects.I am lonely so I play the game and buy aion gold to give my friends.They also give me a lot of cheap aion gold while playing the game.